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THE PANAMA CANAL CLUB STORY.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Condition: Very near fine in stapled printed olive green wrappers.
Book ID: 85781More details Price: $150.00 -
RED TRANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A Maddy and Alex Phillips Mystery of Hypnotic Detection." The adventures of a forensic hypnotherapist, both sightless and a paraplegic and her brother, who detects while in a trance. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-688-130305.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 72817More details Price: $16.50 -
BLOOD TRANCE. Another Maddy and Alex Phillips Mystery of Hypnotic Detection.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Morrow, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page. The adventures of a forensic hypnotherapist and her brother, who detects while in a trance. ISBN: 0-688-12139x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 24841More details Price: $27.50 -
OUTBURST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the mystery series featuring Minneapolis's television best known - and openly gay - reporter, Todd Mills. Zimmerman has won the Lamba Literary award and been nominated for both Edgar and Anthony awards. ISBN: 0-385-323751.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 28969More details Price: $15.00 -
BLOOD TRANCE. Another Maddy and Alex Phillips Mystery of Hypnotic Detection.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Morrow, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The adventures of a forensic hypnotherapist and her brother, who detects while in a trance. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens "For Larry Owens, all best and thanks." 236 pp. ISBN: 0-688-12139x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60515More details Price: $35.00 -
RED TRANCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A Maddy and Alex Phillips Mystery of Hypnotic Detection." The adventures of a forensic hypnotherapist, both sightless and a paraplegic and her brother, who detects while in a trance. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens "For Larry Owens, all best and thanks." Also laid in is a handwritten short note from Zimmerman to Owens thanking him for his interest and support. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-688-130305.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60516More details Price: $35.00 -
BLOOD TRANCE. Another Maddy and Alex Phillips Mystery of Hypnotic Detection.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The adventures of a forensic hypnotherapist and her brother, who detects while in a trance. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-688-12139x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 37793More details Price: $15.00 -
"Studies on the Growth Rate and Nutrient Absorption of Head Lettuce" in HILGARDIA: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station; Volume 32, Number 11, June 1962.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with charts. Literature cited, pp 471-500.
Condition: Fine in stapled gray wrappers.
Book ID: 70040More details Price: $10.00 -
SNFC: The New Abolitionists
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Beacon, 1964. Hardcover first edition - An early book on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community by the historian who acted as an advisor to the group.
Condition: NF/VG+.
Book ID: 9770More details Price: $40.00 -
WILLIE AND DWIKE: An American Profile.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - In writing this biography of two jazz musicians, William Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, who have performed as a jazz duo since 1955, with Ruff on the double bass and French horn and Mitchell on the piano, Zinsser, who had studied jazz piano with Mitchell, followed them on their tour to Shanghai in 1981 (where they introduced jazz to China) and ending with a trip to Venice in 1983. A warm personal account of the shaping of two musicians. ISBN: 0-06-0152753.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder mark, price clipped.)
Book ID: 22943More details Price: $18.00 -
WILLIE AND DWIKE: An American Profile.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - In writing this biography of two jazz musicians, William Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, who have performed as a jazz duo since 1955, with Ruff on the double bass and French horn and Mitchell on the piano, Zinsser, who had studied jazz piano with Mitchell, followed them on their tour to Shanghai in 1981 (where they introduced jazz to China) and ending with a trip to Venice in 1983. A warm personal account of the shaping of two musicians. ISBN: 0-06-0152753.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 22994More details Price: $22.00 -
INVENTING THE TRUTH: The Art and Craft of Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Six writers on the pleasures and pitfalls of writing about their past, based on a series of talks sponsored by the Book of the Month Club and held at the NY Public Libary in 1986. Edited with a memoir and an introduction by William Zinsser. The other authors are Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, Toni Morrison, and Lewis Thomas. Notes on the contributors. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-395445264.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (small peeled spot on spine of dj)
Book ID: 78022More details Price: $28.50 -
PROMOTIONAL CARD for PRINCESS JEWELIANA AND THE SPARKLING RAINBOW BALL.
New York: Reader's Digest, (2003). First edition - One piece of bright pink cardstock, folded to 8 1/2 inches by 6 inches - the interior includes a central pop-up of the castle with two doors that open to reveal the ball within. A promotional item for "girls and boys and booksellers too" - Uncommon.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 85063More details Price: $12.50 -
ANOTHER WEEPING WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the mountains of Montana and introducing Nick Caine, an "offbeat protagonist with a quick wit, a buried past and a set of firmly held prejudices." 263 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0466814.
Condition: Very good in very good- dust jacket (closed tear, other edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 36682More details Price: $14.00 -
MURDER IN THE HELLFIRE CLUB
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, commended for its historical accuracy - a variation of the classic "locked room" mystery featuring Benjamin Franklin and set in London in 1757. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0224411.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35519More details Price: $20.00 -
YELLOW DOGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of war objectors who were drafted during World War I - The Great War. The story focuses on a Kansas farm boy who objects to serving because "killing is wrong." As a result, he's a prisoner in the disclipinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, where he's subjected to a violent and degrading regime, but still manages to form a community with Mennonites from the Dakotas, wobblies and anarchists from Chicago and New York, and nerve cases from the front. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-871132540.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 68391More details Price: $15.00 -
POOH'S NEIGHBORHOOD: Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Disney Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of a series of books based on A.A. Milne's beloved characters, colorfully illustrated and designed to be read to very young children. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-786831367.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36082More details Price: $15.00 -
LAUTREC.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Southwestern writer's first mystery novel, set in Albuquerque. New Mexico. Lautrec is a defense attorney some consider "past his prime, one who can't resist taking on the most hopeless cases." 234 pp. ISBN: 0-525-24784X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 79103More details Price: $15.00 -
NOT OF WAR ONLY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Tom Doherty Assoc, 1994. First edition - Epic novel of the Mexican Revolution of 1914; blurbs by Tony Hillerman among others. Author has won the Golden Spur award twice.
Condition: Very good (crease on front cover) in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 2184More details Price: $14.50 -
THE SLOUCHING TIGERS.
Edition: First printing.
Rockville, MD: Ariadne Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning coming-of-age story of a young Chinese American girl. SIGNED on the title page. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-918056136.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62299More details Price: $22.50 -
THE MESSENGER OF ATHENS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2010). First edition - The first novel in a series based on the seven deadly sins. When the battered body of Irini Asimakopoulo is found at the foot of a high cliff it is written off as a suicide or accident, until a mysterious investigator Hermes Diaktoros ("the fat man") arrives from Athens on the island of Thiminos to look into her death. 322 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88597More details Price: $16.50 -
ANOTHER DEAD TEENAGER
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: St Martin's, 1996. SIGNED - First Stonewall Inn edition. Mystery featuring Detective Paul Turner, the gay father of 2 teenage sons himself. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9762More details Price: $15.00 -
HOOK, LINE AND HOMICIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Chicago police detective Paul Turner, the gay father of 2 teenage sons - in this one, he goes on vacation in Canada's Great North Woods with his sons, partner and friends, only to encounter homophobia, racism and murder there also. 327 pp. ISBN: 978-0312333034.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (usual light toning to the dj)
Book ID: 73595More details Price: $17.50 -
NUCLEAR ILLUSION AND REALITY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - As relevant - or maybe even more so - now, as it was when it was written during the Cold War. Praise from Lewis Thomas on the rear cover, who calls Zuckerman "an exceedingly wise man...he perceives two immediate dangers to human civilization: the stockpiling of small 'theatre' bombs under the delusion that they can be used on battlefields without escalating... and the costly, feckless expenditures on military 'research.' References, index. 176 pp. Striking dust jacket art by Rafael Olbinski. ISBN: 0-670-518220.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 37719More details Price: $12.50 -
FROZEN IN TIME: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57529More details Price: $18.00 -
FAMILY THERAPY: A Triadic-Based Approach.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Behavioral Publications, (1971.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes an overview of the field, techniques in family therapy, case studies, and more. A title in the Clinical Applications Series, edited by Sheldon R. Roen. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-877050694.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (minor edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 41724More details Price: $20.00 -
FERDINAND, including IT WAS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A small volume of two stories by this noted poet - the very short "It Was" and the longer title story, originally written in 1940-1942. Selected bibliography. Cape Editions 25 under the editorship of Nathaniel Tarn. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-224615092.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68258More details Price: $25.00 -
ALL: The Collected Short Poems 1923 - 1958.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poems are arranged chronologically in three sections: 55 Poems (1923-1935), Anew (1935-1944), and Barely and Widely (1956-1958). Index of titles and first lines. Praise fromKenneth Rexroth and William Carlos Willians, and a long blurb on the back cover of the dust jacket by Gilbert Sorrentino, one in which he emphasizes the importance of Zukofsky to modern American poetry. 157 pp. .
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some toning to pages and dust jacket, name of previous owner, poet Elizabeth Harrod, on front endpaper, some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 78118More details Price: $28.50 -
DEATH IN SHANGRI-LA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85706More details Price: $30.00 -
BRIDGE OF CLAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel by the author of 'The Book Thief,' the story of five brothers "who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their fatherÕs disappearance." 534 pp. ISBN: 978-1984830159.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (as new, but with a minor binding flaw to rear pastedown)
Book ID: 79317More details Price: $16.50